Pleurothallis acicularis Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Costa Rica Orchid Photo Website
Holotype and drawing by © Ames and Schweinfurth
Drawings by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Narrow and Sharply Pointed Pleurothallis [refers to the leaves]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala and Alajuela province of Costa Rica at elevatons of 800 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect, ramicaul enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on a horizontal, slender, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, congested, fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, imbricating, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Related to P acrisepala but differs in the small caespitose habit with leaves to 1.2" [3 cm] long, and less than .8" [2 cm] wide and the peduncles less than 2" [5 cm] long. At the tip of the peduncle flowers are produced successively in a fascile of congested pedicels. The sepals are conspicuously spiculate within and the laterals are connate to near the apex. THe petals are dilated on the labellar margin and the lip is oblong with erect, acute, marginal, lobe-like angles below the middle and a pair of denticulate-spiculate calli on the disc." Luer 2006.
Synonyms Pleurothallis dixiorum Luer & Béhar 1991; Sarcinula acicularis (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 2006; Specklinia acicularis (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Sched. Orch. 10: 21-23. C Schweinfurth 1930;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986;
Lindleyana 6: 97 Luer & Behar 1991 as P dixiorum drawing fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as P dixiorum photo fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:256 Pridgeoan & Chase 2001 as Acianthera acicularis;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Sarcinula acicularis
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Sarcinula acicularis drawing fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Specklinia acicularis;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia acicularis photo fide
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